Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your engine

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Volker Annuss
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Re: Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your en

Post by Volker Annuss » Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:59 pm

Hermann, is another name for Arminius, the chieftain of the germanic cherusci, who defeated the roman army in 9 A.D.

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Re: Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your en

Post by Piotr Cichy » Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:17 pm

My engine was very small in size (about 30KB) and my friend suggested the name nanoSzachy (szachy means chess in Polish).

PikoSzachy is simplified version of nanoSzachy and is yet smaller (10 KB) so choosing the name for it was quite obvious.

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Re: Programmers: what's the story behind the name of your en

Post by JVMerlino » Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:57 pm

Hi Roger,

I initially read them almost 30 years ago, and followed them diligently until they got silly about 10 years ago. I think the last one I read was "Something M.Y.T.H Inc".

jm

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